Four Pakistanis beheaded in Saudi Arabia for murder, rape

Riyadh (Web Desk): Saudi Arabia has executed four Pakistani men convicted of raping and murdering a woman and raping her teenage son, the interior ministry said.

The men were also convicted of stealing jewellery and cash after entering the woman’s home in Riyadh and raping and strangling her, according to a ministry statement cited by the official SPA news agency.

The oil-rich Kingdom has executed 20 people since the start of 2018.

On July 10 last year, a Pakistani citizen was among six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia , the government said, the highest number of executions in a single day in 2017.